I've been using the CPAN module XML::Feed to parse Atom and RSS feeds.
Some of the feeds it fetches are a little broken from time to time and
when that happens the parser produces and error and stops the program.
I'd like it to just keep going.
I am invoking the parser inside a subroutine like this:
my $feed = XML::Feed->parse(URI->new($uri)) or return(0);
which I thought that would allow the subroutine to simply return failure
and let the program keep going. But it does not. Instead it shows an
error and quits. Here is an error from feed which is broken today but
not yesterday and probably will be ok again tomorrow:
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 142, column 76,
byte 30070 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/XML/Parser.pm
line 187.
... foo.pl: exited with status 255; aborting
I have no control over the feeds and their formats or contents. So, are
there instead any recommendations on how I can have perl trap the error
or otherwise prevent malformed XML from bringing the whole program to a
halt?
Thanks,
Lars
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